Participants will learn how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), use an automated external defibrillator (AED), and provide relief to choking victims. Skills are taught for use with adults, children, and infants. The class is completed in about three to four hours.

According to the American Heart Association, 70 percent of Americans feel helpless to act during a cardiac emergency because they either do not know how to administer CPR or their training has significantly lapsed. This alarming statistic could hit close to home, because home is exactly where 88 percent of cardiac arrests occur.

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), which is a form of first aid, is a lifesaving technique useful in many emergencies, including heart attack, cardiac arrest, or near drowning, in which someone's breathing or heartbeat has stopped.

First aid is the help given to a sick or injured person until full medical treatment is available.

Why Learn CPR?
Emergencies such as cardiac arrest are more common than you think, and they can happen to anyone at any time. Many victims appear healthy with no known heart disease or other risk factors.

Who Can You Help with CPR?
The life you save with CPR is likely to be a loved one. Four out of five cardiac arrests happen at home. Statistically speaking, if called on to administer CPR in an emergency, the life you save is likely to be someone at home: a child, a spouse, a parent, or a friend.

Failure to act in a cardiac emergency can lead to unnecessary deaths. Effective bystander CPR provided immediately after sudden cardiac arrest can double or triple a victim’s chance of survival. Less than 8 percent of people who suffer cardiac arrest outside the hospital survive.

Course Fees
For this particular CPR/AED Training, the Winterim committee will be paying for the 16 participants who register for this session using a grant received through the Faculty-Student Association. This is for the first 16 people who register in LibCal. Registration is limited to only 16 participants.

Please contact Paula Madrigal, assistant director of prevention and health promotion, with questions.

Presenter: Paula Madrigal